Imprinting and peer effects in acquiring state ownership: Evidence from private firms in China
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2020.101337
Download full text from publisher
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.
References listed on IDEAS
- Zoran Ivković & Scott Weisbenner, 2005.
"Local Does as Local Is: Information Content of the Geography of Individual Investors' Common Stock Investments,"
Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 60(1), pages 267-306, February.
- Scott Weisbenner & Zoran Ivkovich, 2003. "Local Does as Local Is: Information Content of the Geography of Individual Investors' Common Stock Investments," NBER Working Papers 9685, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Mark T. Leary & Michael R. Roberts, 2014. "Do Peer Firms Affect Corporate Financial Policy?," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 69(1), pages 139-178, February.
- Fan, Joseph P.H. & Wong, T.J. & Zhang, Tianyu, 2007. "Politically connected CEOs, corporate governance, and Post-IPO performance of China's newly partially privatized firms," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 84(2), pages 330-357, May.
- Liu, Qigui & Luo, Jinbo & Tian, Gary Gang, 2016. "Managerial professional connections versus political connections: Evidence from firms' access to informal financing resources," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 179-200.
- Allen, Franklin & Qian, Jun & Qian, Meijun, 2005.
"Law, finance, and economic growth in China,"
Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(1), pages 57-116, July.
- Franklin Allen & Jun Qian & Meijun Qian, 2002. "Law, Finance, and Economic Growth in China," Center for Financial Institutions Working Papers 02-44, Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania.
- Seung Ho Park & Yadong Luo, 2001. "Guanxi and organizational dynamics: organizational networking in Chinese firms," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 22(5), pages 455-477, May.
- Beatty, Anne & Liao, Scott & Yu, Jeff Jiewei, 2013. "The spillover effect of fraudulent financial reporting on peer firms' investments," Journal of Accounting and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(2), pages 183-205.
- Wei, Li-Qun & Ling, Yan, 2015. "CEO characteristics and corporate entrepreneurship in transition economies: Evidence from China," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 68(6), pages 1157-1165.
- repec:bla:jfinan:v:59:y:2004:i:2:p:537-600 is not listed on IDEAS
- Michael Faulkender & Jun Yang, 2013. "Is Disclosure an Effective Cleansing Mechanism? The Dynamics of Compensation Peer Benchmarking," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 26(3), pages 806-839.
- Ng, Lilian & Wu, Fei, 2006. "Revealed stock preferences of individual investors: Evidence from Chinese equity markets," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 14(2), pages 175-192, April.
- Joel A. C. Baum & Kristina B. Dahlin, 2007. "Aspiration Performance and Railroads’ Patterns of Learning from Train Wrecks and Crashes," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 18(3), pages 368-385, June.
- Esther Duflo & Emmanuel Saez, 2003.
"The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment,"
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 118(3), pages 815-842.
- Esther Duflo & Emmanuel Saez, 2002. "The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment," NBER Working Papers 8885, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Esther Duflo & Emmanuel Saez, 2003. "The role of information and social interactions in retirement plan decisions: Evidence from a randomized experiment," Framed Field Experiments 00141, The Field Experiments Website.
- Stephen P. Ferris & Reza Houston & David Javakhadze, 2016. "Friends in the Right Places: The Effect of Political Connections on Corporate Merger Activity," NFI Working Papers 2016-WP-01, Indiana State University, Scott College of Business, Networks Financial Institute.
- Armin Falk & Andrea Ichino, 2006.
"Clean Evidence on Peer Effects,"
Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 24(1), pages 39-58, January.
- Armin Falk & Andrea Ichino, 2004. "Clean Evidence on Peer Effects," Levine's Bibliography 666156000000000439, UCLA Department of Economics.
- Tian, Lihui & Estrin, Saul, 2008. "Retained state shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does government ownership always reduce corporate value?," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 36(1), pages 74-89, March.
- Bin Li & Lei Xu & Ron McIver & Qian Wu & Ailing Pan, 2020. "Green M&A, legitimacy and risk‐taking: evidence from China’s heavy polluters," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 60(1), pages 97-127, March.
- Nikolaeva, Ralitza, 2014. "Interorganizational imitation heuristics arising from cognitive frames," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 67(8), pages 1758-1765.
- Gerard Hoberg & Gordon Phillips, 2016.
"Text-Based Network Industries and Endogenous Product Differentiation,"
Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 124(5), pages 1423-1465.
- Gerard Hoberg & Gordon M. Phillips, 2010. "Text-Based Network Industries and Endogenous Product Differentiation," NBER Working Papers 15991, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Ferris, Stephen P. & Houston, Reza & Javakhadze, David, 2016. "Friends in the right places: The effect of political connections on corporate merger activity," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 81-102.
- Graham, John R. & Harvey, Campbell R., 2001. "The theory and practice of corporate finance: evidence from the field," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 60(2-3), pages 187-243, May.
- Wang, Fangjun & Xu, Luying & Zhang, Junrui & Shu, Wei, 2018. "Political connections, internal control and firm value: Evidence from China's anti-corruption campaign," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 53-67.
- Peter M. DeMarzo & Dimitri Vayanos & Jeffrey Zwiebel, 2003.
"Persuasion Bias, Social Influence, and Unidimensional Opinions,"
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 118(3), pages 909-968.
- Zwiebel, Jeffrey H. & Vayanos, Dimitri & DeMarzo, Peter M., 2001. "Persuasion Bias, Social Influence, and Uni-Dimensional Opinions," Research Papers 1719, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
- DeMarzo, Peter M. & Vayanos, Dimitri & Zwiebel, Jeffrey, 2003. "Persuasion bias, social influence, and uni-dimensional opinions," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 454, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Saul Estrin & Jan Hanousek & Evzen Kocenda & Jan Svejnar, 2009.
"The Effects of Privatization and Ownership in Transition Economies,"
Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 47(3), pages 699-728, September.
- Estrin, Saul & Hanousek, Jan & Kocenda, Evzen & Svejnar, Jan, 2009. "Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4811, The World Bank.
- John J. Horton & Richard J. Zeckhauser, 2016.
"The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments,"
NBER Working Papers
22386, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Horton, John J. & Zeckhauser, Richard J., 2016. "The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments," Working Paper Series 16-027, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
- Harris, Oneil & Madura, Jeff & Glegg, Charmaine, 2010. "Do managers make takeover financing decisions that circumvent more effective outside blockholders?," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 50(2), pages 180-190, May.
- Hu, Henry T.C. & Black, Bernard, 2007. "Hedge funds, insiders, and the decoupling of economic and voting ownership: Empty voting and hidden (morphable) ownership," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 13(2-3), pages 343-367, June.
- Xu, Lei & Lin, Chien-Ting, 2007. "Can Chinese banks compete after accession to WTO?," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 18(6), pages 883-903, December.
- Abhijit V. Banerjee, 1992. "A Simple Model of Herd Behavior," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 107(3), pages 797-817.
- Yi, Lee Mei & Ellis, Paul, 2000. "Insider-outsider perspectives of Guanxi," Business Horizons, Elsevier, vol. 43(1), pages 25-30.
- Bailey, Warren & Huang, Wei & Yang, Zhishu, 2011. "Bank Loans with Chinese Characteristics: Some Evidence on Inside Debt in a State-Controlled Banking System," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 46(6), pages 1795-1830, December.
- Robert Elliott & Ying Zhou, 2013.
"State-owned Enterprises, Exporting and Productivity in China: A Stochastic Dominance Approach,"
The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 36(8), pages 1000-1028, August.
- Robert Elliott & Ying Zhou, 2013. "State-Owned Enterprises, Exporting and Productivity in China: A Stochastic Dominance Approach," Discussion Papers 13-03, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham.
- Charles F. Manski, 1993.
"Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem,"
The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 60(3), pages 531-542.
- Manski, Charles F., 1991. "Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem," SSRI Workshop Series 292712, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Social Systems Research Institute.
- Manski, C.F., 1991. "Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: the Reflection Problem," Working papers 9127, Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems.
- Bris, Arturo, 2002. "Toeholds, takeover premium, and the probability of being acquired," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 227-253, July.
- Ishii, Joy & Xuan, Yuhai, 2014. "Acquirer-target social ties and merger outcomes," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 112(3), pages 344-363.
- Hunter, William C. & Jagtiani, Julapa, 2003.
"An analysis of advisor choice, fees, and effort in mergers and acquisitions,"
Review of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 12(1), pages 65-81.
- William C. Hunter & Julapa Jagtiani, 2003. "An analysis of advisor choice, fees, and effort in mergers and acquisitions," Review of Financial Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 12(1), pages 65-81.
- Bilei Zhou & Jie (Michael) Guo & Jun Hua & Angelos J. Doukas, 2015. "Does State Ownership Drive M&A Performance? Evidence from China," European Financial Management, European Financial Management Association, vol. 21(1), pages 79-105, January.
- Farid Ullah & Ping Jiang & Yasir Shahab & Hai-Xia Li & Lei Xu, 2020. "Block ownership and CEO compensation: does board gender diversity matter?," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(6), pages 583-597, February.
- M. M. Fonseka & Xing Yang & Gao-Liang Tian & Sisira R. N. Colombage, 2015. "Political connections, ownership structure and private-equity placement decision: evidence from Chinese listed firms," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(52), pages 5648-5666, November.
- Zhang, Wenjia & Mauck, Nathan, 2018. "Government-affiliation, bilateral political relations and cross-border mergers: Evidence from China," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 220-250.
- McLaughlin, Joanne Song, 2017. "Does Communist party membership pay? Estimating the economic returns to party membership in the labor market in China," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 45(4), pages 963-983.
- Yu He & Lei Xu & Ron P. McIver, 2019. "How does political connection affect firm financial distress and resolution in China?," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(26), pages 2770-2792, June.
- repec:cup:jfinqa:v:46:y:2011:i:06:p:1795-1830_00 is not listed on IDEAS
- Guo, Di & Jiang, Kun & Kim, Byung-Yeon & Xu, Chenggang, 2014. "Political economy of private firms in China," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 42(2), pages 286-303.
- Schweizer, Denis & Walker, Thomas & Zhang, Aoran, 2019. "Cross-border acquisitions by Chinese enterprises: The benefits and disadvantages of political connections," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 63-85.
- Christa H. S. Bouwman, 2011. "Corporate Governance Propagation through Overlapping Directors," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 24(7), pages 2358-2394.
- El-Khatib, Rwan & Fogel, Kathy & Jandik, Tomas, 2015. "CEO network centrality and merger performance," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 116(2), pages 349-382.
- Cai, Ye & Sevilir, Merih, 2012. "Board connections and M&A transactions," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 103(2), pages 327-349.
- Bat Batjargal & Mannie (Manhong) Liu, 2004. "Entrepreneurs’ Access to Private Equity in China: The Role of Social Capital," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 15(2), pages 159-172, April.
- Casey Dougal & Christopher A. Parsons & Sheridan Titman, 2015. "Urban Vibrancy and Corporate Growth," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 70(1), pages 163-210, February.
- Nabin, Munirul H. & Sgro, Pasquale M. & Nguyen, Xuan & Chao, Chi Chur, 2016. "State-owned enterprises, competition and product quality," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 200-209.
- Gang Wei, 2007. "Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance and Company Performance in China," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 519-545, October.
- Diwas KC & Bradley R. Staats & Francesca Gino, 2013. "Learning from My Success and from Others' Failure: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 59(11), pages 2435-2449, November.
- Kristina Dahlin & Joel A.C Baum, 2007. "Aspiration performance and railroads' patterns of learning from train wrecks and crashes," Post-Print hal-00480399, HAL.
- Ulrike Malmendier & Geoffrey Tate & Jon Yan, 2011. "Overconfidence and Early‐Life Experiences: The Effect of Managerial Traits on Corporate Financial Policies," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 66(5), pages 1687-1733, October.
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Li, Bin & Guo, Fei & Xu, Lei & Meng, Siqi, 2024. "Fintech business and corporate social responsibility practices," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 59(C).
- Jizhe Yang & Tingfeng Jiang & Lu Dai, 2022. "State‐ownership and corporate cash holding: Evidence from China," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 61(2), pages 217-233, June.
- Pan, Ailing & Xu, Lei & Li, Bin & Ling, Runze, 2020. "The impact of supply chain finance on firm cash holdings: Evidence from China," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).
- Hui Zhao & Ao Lei & Yuhui Li & Dingjun Hong, 2023. "The Sectoral and Regional Peer Influences on Heavy-Pollution Corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance Performance," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(17), pages 1-42, August.
- Kun Jiang & Susheng Wang, 2024. "Survival tactics for distressed firms in emerging markets," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 41(2), pages 823-866, June.
- Lei Xu & Qian Liu & Bin Li & Chen Ma, 2022. "Fintech business and firm access to bank loans," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 62(4), pages 4381-4421, December.
- Xu, Jingchang & Zhang, Huixuan & Wu, Wuqing, 2023. "One novel mixed ownership reform and green innovation in private firms: Evidence from China," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 57(C).
- Ming Chen & Jiao Wu, 2023. "State ownership may not be bad: Based on bibliometric research (2002–2021)," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(2), pages 1285-1304, March.
- Long Wu & Lei Xu, 2022. "Bank loans and firm environmental information disclosure: Evidence from China's heavy polluters," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 61(1), pages 42-71, March.
- Wu, Long & Xu, Lei & Jiang, Ping, 2023. "State-owned venture capitals and bank loans in China," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Renneboog, Luc & Vansteenkiste, Cara, 2019.
"Failure and success in mergers and acquisitions,"
Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 650-699.
- Renneboog, Luc & Vansteenkiste, C., 2019. "Failure and Success in Mergers and Acquisitions," Discussion Paper 2019-026, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
- M. Cecilia Bustamante & Laurent Frésard, 2021. "Does Firm Investment Respond to Peers’ Investment?," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 67(8), pages 4703-4724, August.
- Ajirloo, Bahman Fathi & Switzer, Lorne N., 2022. "Self-disclosed peer effects on corporate capital structure," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
- Renneboog, Luc & Vansteenkiste, Cara, 2019. "Failure and success in mergers and acquisitions," Other publications TiSEM 9baa3ffc-67cb-4647-9da5-a, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
- Liu, Yongda & Padgett, Carol & Yin, Chao, 2022. "Internal information quality and financial policy peer effects," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
- Shuangyan Li & Anum Shahzadi & Mingbo Zheng & Chun-Ping Chang, 2022. "The impacts of executives’ political connections on interactions between firm’s mergers, acquisitions, and performance," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 55(2), pages 653-679, May.
- Renneboog, Luc & Vansteenkiste, C., 2019. "Failure and Success in Mergers and Acquisitions," Other publications TiSEM cb487f33-0217-412f-a1ec-d, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
- Brahma, Sanjukta & Zhang, Jing & Boateng, Agyenim & Nwafor, Chioma, 2023. "Political connection and M&A performance: Evidence from China," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 85(C), pages 372-389.
- Stanley Iat Meng Ko & Rose Neng Lai & Zhenjiang Qin, 2023. "Social Network Matters: Capital Structure Risk Control on REITs," The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Springer, vol. 66(3), pages 709-742, April.
- Chang, Liang & Tan, Na & Zhang, Xinyue & Yuan, Yiyun, 2023. "Does peer firms’ tone affect corporate investment? Evidence from China," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
- Li, Bin & Guo, Fei & Xu, Lei & Meng, Siqi, 2024. "Fintech business and corporate social responsibility practices," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 59(C).
- Ulrike Malmendier, 2018. "Behavioral Corporate Finance," NBER Working Papers 25162, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Jingbo Luo & Weimin Wang, 2023. "Do managers' professional connections benefit their firms in mergers and acquisitions: Chinese evidence," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 60(2), pages 679-713, February.
- Jing, Wei & Zhang, Xueyong, 2021. "Online social networks and corporate investment similarity," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
- Du, Qianqian & Shen, Rui, 2018. "Peer performance and earnings management," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 125-137.
- Long Wu & Lei Xu, 2022. "Bank loans and firm environmental information disclosure: Evidence from China's heavy polluters," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 61(1), pages 42-71, March.
- Bao, Yangming & Goetz, Martin, 2018. "Local peer effects and corporate investment," SAFE Working Paper Series 220, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE.
- Carosi, Andrea, 2016. "Do local causations matter? The effect of firm location on the relations of ROE, R&D, and firm SIZE with MARKET-TO-BOOK," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 388-409.
- Ali-Rind, Asad & Boubaker, Sabri & Jarjir, Souad Lajili, 2023.
"Peer effects in financial economics: A literature survey,"
Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).
- Asad Ali-Rind & Sabri Boubaker & Souad Lajili Jarjir, 2023. "Peer effects in financial economics: A literature survey," Post-Print hal-04085261, HAL.
- Grieser, William & Hadlock, Charles & LeSage, James & Zekhnini, Morad, 2022. "Network effects in corporate financial policies," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 144(1), pages 247-272.
More about this item
Keywords
State ownership; Private takeover; Imprinting; Peer effect; Social capital;All these keywords.
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:pacfin:v:61:y:2020:i:c:s0927538x19302550. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pacfin .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.